The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-12
ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss Frances Willard is On ardent be-
lever in Mrs. Jenness Miller's system Of dress
reform. and has declared that she win work for
It a. she does for temperance.
It Is one Of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's
whims to wear nothing but white indoors.
Usually It 10 some sort of white satin Kate
Greenaway robe, high-necked and long sleeved,
In the morning, short sleeves and square neck
ct night.
Mrs. Florence Rice-Kno has won
derfully beautiful collection Of china slippers
resting on carved table, They are all shapes
and styles and are Of Dresden, Sevres, Royal
Worcester, Minton, Delfe, Japanese and from
many other famous potteries.
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, wife of the
martyred General Custer, is tall and slender,
with black hair and sympathetic gray-brown
eyes. Her face has been handsome one in
earlier days, but anxiety and sorrow have left
upon It many marks and lines.
Mime. scalchi is very gracious to ambi.
tious musical students who seek her acquaint-
ance. She receives them kindly, chats with
them pleasantly, and they always leave her
presence with % ardent an admiration for her
as woman a. they previously had for her a.
an artist.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern, while talking
of her plans just before her recent departure
for Southern California, was asked why she
didn't walk there, and replied: "How I wish
had the time to do that ut would be great
fun, And what grand walk It would bel But
can't spare the time"
George William Curtis daughter,
Elizabeth, interests herself decidedly In the
working girls, 90 distinguished from the young
ladies Of leisure, and has banded those Of
Staten Island into Working Woman's Guide,
with readingrooms, library and pleasant even
ing recreations, which are showing themselves
Of decided practical good.
Miss Alice Freeman, the president of
Wellesley College, 10 young woman whom
most Of her sex look upon as born under
lucky star. With her erect figure, dark hair,
big brown eyes, and the glow in her cheeks,
she looks the embodiment of Nineteenth Gen.
tury womanhood, conscious Of strength, re-
joicing in new opportunities, and eager to put
her just realized powers to the proof. Miss
Freeman u graduate of Michigan University.
Mrs. Mary L. Barr, who is making her.
self known as writer Of Scotch dialect stories,
hardly touched pen to paper up to the age of
fifty-four. She lost her husband, who was mil
itary governor OF Texas, and seven children in
the space of twenty-foar hours from yellow
fever, and found herself left with four little
ones and fifty cents on her hands. In course
of time she drifted to New York and became
goyerness in the family Of one Of A. T. Stew
arts partners. Her FIRST tale, which was writ
ten at the request and to crafty the whim Of
her employer, dealt with life in the old days in
Texas and found publisher with ease.
Miss Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame,
IL . Massachusetts, woman, daughter Of one
of mad Anthony Wayne's" old soldiers. They
say that she organised the frst public school
ever started In Bordentown. N. J.. and she was
copyist in the patent ohaceat Warrington for
some years before the war. The first gun Of
the war brought her to the front and in
the work Of the Sanitary Commission none was
more devoted In the field. She spent the last
cent she possessed in organizing bureau Of
records Of the missing men of the armies, andso
useful did 1t prove that Congress voted her
e16,000 for services to the government.